Line-casting machine.



J. R. ROGERS. LINE CASTING MACHINE,

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1910,

1,067,552, Patented July 15, 1913.

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I l I! v I l I I I J R. ROGERS. LINE GASTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNBS, 1910.'

"1,067,552, I Patented Ju1y15,1913.

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lillliii wmulllE "nnirnn STATES PAtrnn'r orrrcn JOHN R. nocnns, or isnooKLYn, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 MERGENTHALER LIND- TYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINE-GASTING MACHINE.

Patented July 15, 1913.

Application filed June 3, 1910. Serial No. 564,816.

machines wherein circulating matrices representing the individual letters or charac-v tersstored in the magazine are released therefrom in the order in which their characters are to appear in print, assembled temporarily in line, and the composed lines presented successively to close the front of a slotted mold in order to form type characters in relief on the face of a type metal slug cast therein, the composed line being thereafter lifted to a distributing mechanism by which the matrices are returned to the magazine channels from which they were released.

The invention has special reference to that class of machines in which two magazines containing distinct sets or fonts of matrices, either of which may be called into use at will, are employed.

The, object of the invention is to provide means-z whereby matrices from the two magazines, whether assembled in one line or in distinct lines, may be returned to the appropriate magazine by means of asingle distributor. 7

To this end it consists in coml'iining with the distributor and with matrices of two fonts, those of each font having a distinctive form, guides adapted to engage the matrices of one font falling from the distributor and deflect them to one of the magazines, while those of the other font are permitted to fall without interruption thereto.

The distributing mechanism, the matrices and the magazines may be of any suitable construction. but I prefer to employ channeled magazinrs such as are commonly used in connnercial lvlcrgenthaler machines of the present day and represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 436,532, in connection with a lllergenthaler distributer of the character shown in Letters Patent No. 347,629, and I have shown such.

parts, familiar to all those skilled art, in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 in the a erspective view showing my improved mechanism in vertical cross section. Figs. 2 and 3 are side views of matrices belonging to the two fonts. Fig. 4 is a rear, elevation of the distributor bar and guides.

Referring to the drawings, A and A represent two inclined magazines, one overlying the other and each composed of par-' allel top and bottom plates having their inner faces grooved or channeled longitudinally to receive and guide the upper and lower edges of the matrices, B and B The respective magazines are'joined at their upper ends to the throats or entrances C and 0?, which serve to receive the matrices from the distributer and direct them downward into the magazine channels, each of these throats or entrances being curved until it assumes a vertical position at the upper end, and provided with vertical partition plates 0 between which the matrices are guided and by which they are prevented from twisting or turning endwise.

D represents a stationary distributor bar lying horizontally over the throat or entrance to the upper magazine A It is of the ordinary lilergenthaler construction, of V form at the lower edge and with longitudinal permuted teeth to engage and sustain the matrices as they are carried along the same.

E, E and E are horizontal screws lying adjacentto the distributer, in position to engage the ears or edges ofthe matrices suspended therefrom and carry them individually along the bar until. they arrive at the points where they are released and permitted to descend toward the magazines. The'matrices have in their upper end V shaped notches with internal teeth adapted to engage the teeth of they distributer bar in order to suspend the matrices therefrom, the teeth being permuted as usual, so that each matrix is held in suspension until itarrives over the corresponding channel of a magazine. The distributor bar is arranged directly over the entrance C to the upper magazine so that the matrices of the uppergnagazine released by the bar are permittedto fall vertically into the throat C whence they pass into the magazine. The

throat or entrance C of the lower magazine A stands behind and below the-entrance of the other magazine. In order, therefore, that the matrices for the lower magazine iiL Ecorr 2 V over or hook over one of these guides, along which it will descend by gravity. The lower end of each guide is of such form and is so located, that a matrix sliding from llZ-S lowerend will pass directly into the appropriate spending channel in the magazine A. 'will be observed that the guides'engage and deflect from their course only those matrices which are provided with notches and: which belong to the lower magazine A. The

matrices are constructed as usual with the; V

shaped notch in the upper end, and the guides F are of such'form and spaced at such distance apart that while the upper edge of one engages under the ear of and sustains a descending matrix, the under edge of the next guide will enter the central notch" J1 in the matrix asshown in Fig. l, and

assist in so guiding the matrix as to prevent it from turning out of position and direct it properly into the magazine throat or entrance.

In order to prevent the possibility of matrices which belong in the upper magazine from engaging or being retarded by the guides, I prefer to bevel or incline their ears on the rear side as shown at 6 Fig. 3.

The matrices belonging in the two sets or fonts have like distributing teeth, so that corresponding characters belonging to the two fonts will be released from the distrib-' .uter bar at one and the same point. For example, fthe matrices of the upper magazine, bearing the letter A, will be released from the distributer bar at the same point as mat-v rices of the lower magazine bearing the same character or running in the corresponding channel of the lower magazine. Being thus released, they-would all pass to the upper magazine but for their difference in form and the presence of the guides by which those of one form only are diverted from their natural course of descent. 1

The essence of the invention lies in comb'ining with a distributor adapted to deliver matrices ottwo fonts at the same points. :ionary guides or rails adapted to direct i'natrices oi? the one tent away from the Phil). which they would initilrally follow, in I 2 er to separate them font.

il be manifest to the skilled mechanic from those of the that'the guides and the notches in the n x-. rices may be widely modified in detail wit;- outnideparting f'rom theprincipleof the invention. 5 I v Having this described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patj 1. .In a line casting machine, the combination of a single d stributor, a magazine entrance in positionto receive matrices talling directly from the distributer, a' second magazine having its entrance out of line with that of the first, and stationary inelined guides arranged to receive matrices directly from the distributer and to deflect and guide them to the entrance of the a second magazine. channel in the throat and thence to the corre It 1.2, In 'a'line casting m'achine,the combination of a single distributer, matrices of =variant forms, adapted for delivery from the distributer atthe same points, a magazine in position to receive matrices of one form falling dlrectly from the d1stributer,'stati'onary guides adapted to receive matrices of the other form directly from the dis tributer and deflect and guide them from their natural path, and a second magazine having its entrance out of line with that of the. first and arranged to receive the matrices from said guides.

3. In a line casting. machine, the combination of the distributer'D, the two niagazines A and A having the receiving ends of their throats or entrances arranged one behind the other, and the stationary in-.

clined guides F leading to one of the entrances, said parts arranged substantially.

as described.

4:. In combination with the distributer D,

the throats or entrances for two magazines,-

the said throats or entrances. being arranged with their receiving ends one behind the other, the stationary guides I* leading to one ofthe entrances, and the matrices B and B, the former arranged to engage the said guides when falling from the distributer, and the latter arranged the guides without engagement.

5. In a line casting machine, a. distributer D incombination with matrices B, having the notched ears 7), the matrices B having beveled ears b and the deflecting, guides I,

having their upper ends in posit on to engage the notches of the matrices 6. In a line casting machine, the distributer D arranged to release the matrices from its lower edge, and a magazine out of line therewith, in combination with stationary guides F adapted to receive the matrices directly from the distributer and deflect them edgewise, in such manner-that they carry the matrices away from their natural course of descent and into the magazine.

7. In combination with the distributor-I7, I

:es having a central notch in the to pass upper end and a toothed ear on one edge, and ststlo arr gnides 1 formed and arranged whetnntiaily as described, so that one guide may engage the ear of a descendadjacent guide enters the central notch of the nmtrix to assist in guiding; the same.

8. The combination of a distrihnter and matrices co-acting therewith, with 11 magazine having the rewiring end of trance out of hue ;npports \rh'eh with the (hstrihnter ant] receive the matrices gnide them to the magazine.

9. The eoinhiinition ot' a smote Ii trihnter and two series of matrices co-ucting then with, with two magazines, having tin- 5 trances one in line with the Gistribnter the otl er out of line therewith, and guiding v and the second magazine, Wi ereh mg BHIU'IX and SUSUUH the same White the hand this set-mid flpresence of two flt'lcbtlllg witnesses. rectl} trom the distributor and premvetv 7 HTML supports arranged between the distrihuter one t iireetly and tilootiiei series ries of matrices is permitted to par into the first magazine of matrices is engaged by the support and fpositively guided 'L'i16!j{?1)}' illULthO second E nmguzine.

its en- In tPStilHOn) whereof I hereunto set my of June, 1910, in the JOHR R. ROGERS. \-\'i'tnef zex:

Uwm h. Iii-DIXIE LL'CY E. SMITH.

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